Storytellers

Thomas Davies (1901-82)

48 Erw Goch, Waunfawr, Aberystwyth.

Born on Treale farm in Pen-boyr parish, Carmarthenshire. Attended Trinity College Carmarthen, and was headmaster of primary schools at Llangeler, Carmarthenshire; Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, Montgomeryshire; and Llanfihangel Cwm Du, Brecknockshire. He was the author of a memoir, Yn Fore yn Felindre ['Early Days in Felindre'] (Llandysul, 1966).

In AD 75, the Romans built a fortress at Caerleon that would guard the region for over 200 years. Today at the National Roman Legion Museum you can learn what made the Romans a formidable force and how life wouldn't be the same without them.